If conky is flickering while updates you need to enable double buffering in conky’s configuration file as it is to see above. This will have no effect until you enable double buffering in X11, too.

In order to do this one need to edit the xorg.conf (usually in /etc/X11 and edit as root) and add

Load “dbe”

to the

Section “Module”

Changes will have no effect until your restart the X11 server (e.g. with ctrl+alt+delete)

I lately ran into to this issue and think it’s worth a comment.

polarizer